This vulnerability is highly dangerous and expected to become exploited.
A broken access control issue refers to a missing authorization, authentication or nonce token check in a function that could lead to an unprivileged user to executing a certain higher privileged action.
CVSS score is a way to evaluate and rank reported vulnerabilities in a standardized and repeatable way but which is not ideal for WordPress.
We advise to mitigate or resolve the vulnerability immediately.
Patchstack has issued a mitigation rule to block any attacks until you have updated to a fixed version.
Update to version 3.8122 or later to remove the vulnerability. Patchstack users can turn on auto-update for vulnerable plugins only.
Early warning sent out to Patchstack customers
17 Dec, 2024
Published by Patchstack
17 Dec, 2024